Growing Maitake Mushrooms – Cathy At Home on the River

Mushroom Update

My husband wanted to grow more mushrooms this year. We innoculated a bunch of shitake logs back in 2023, and we did some more earlier this year. Here’s the post that I did on that this spring: https://cathyathomeontheriver.com/2025/03/24/making-mushrooms/ We recently got a bunch of rain and my husband noticed that our shitake logs were startingContinue reading “Mushroom Update”

More Mushrooms–Maitake edition

My husband was feeling really ambitious when he was shopping for mushrooms, so in addition to the shitake spawn and all the tools, he also bought Maitake spawn, also known as Hen of the Woods. So the process for this type of mushroom is VERY different from the shitake mushrooms that we did. First ofContinue reading “More Mushrooms–Maitake edition”